Depression and the body: pain, fatigue and digestion
Fatigue that rest does not repair, pain without injury and a sensitive gut are not side issues. They are part of the same condition.
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Therapy during fertility treatment: what it can offer and what it cannot
Therapy cannot guarantee a pregnancy or answer medical questions. But it can offer room for grief after failed cycles, for conversation as a couple and for the decisions treatment demands.
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Siblings, alliances and coalitions: the invisible geometry of a family
Triangles, coalitions and parentification: how a family's invisible geometry forms, why two siblings turn out so differently, and what stirs when parents need care.
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Loneliness in parents of young children: never alone and lonely all the same
With a small child you are never alone, yet you can be very lonely. Why the old circle drifts away, how mothers and fathers experience it, and what you can do this…
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"Just snap out of it": why advice from loved ones does not help
Advice assumes information is missing. In depression what is missing is capacity - so well-meant sentences land as accusations.
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After a major loss: when grief turns into depression
The boundary is not in the calendar but in whether grief moves. What prolonged grief disorder is, and how it differs from depression after a loss.
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How joint sessions work: who comes, who speaks and what the therapist does
Who comes to a joint session and who does not need to, what the rules are, what the therapist does, what you take home, and what the arc of the whole process…
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Why couples therapy is not the right help when there is violence
When there is violence in a relationship, a shared room isn't safe, and the frame of couples therapy implies a shared responsibility that doesn't exist. What helps instead.
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What happens in the body during a panic attack - minute by minute
From the alarm in the first second to the exhaustion hours later: what adrenaline does, why there is not too little oxygen, and why the peak has to pass.
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Why a panic attack is not dangerous, even when it feels like a heart attack
Organ by organ: what adrenaline does to the heart, the lungs and blood pressure - and why terrifying is not the same as dangerous.
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